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I get all fired up about aging in America.
Willard Scott on age

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day on age

There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.
Susan Anton on age

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.
Colleen McCullough on age

When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
Muriel Spark on age

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.
Hume Cronyn on age

The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet with an old man whose opinions are not ossified.
Bob Wells on age

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.
Ira Gershwin on age

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
Marvin Davis on age

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
William Ernest Hocking on age

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein on age

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Albert Einstein on age

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein on age

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein on age

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Ralph Waldo Emerson on age

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain on age

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'
Claude Pepper on age

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche on age

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt on age

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Muhammad Ali on age